Configuring ADFS Servers for Success and Failure Auditing of User Logon Events

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Below is the information needed for auditing success and failure logon events in an ADFS Server Farm (Check out our Identity Cloud Solutions for additional consulting help)

Configure ADFS Event Logging

You can configure event logging on federation servers, federation server proxies, and Web servers. ADFS events are logged in the Application event log and the Security event log.

Important

You must turn on audit object access at each of the federation servers, for ADFS-related audits to appear in the Security log. This will allow the Federation Service to log either success or failure errors. For more information about how to turn on audit object access, see Audit object access (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62686).

 

Default Events for Claims-aware Applications on a Web Server

You will notice the following event if the ADFS Web server is able to retrieve ADFS trust information successfully from the Federation Service.

Event Type:Information


Event Source:ADFS


Event Category:None


Event ID:621


Date:11/10/2005


Time:4:09:26 PM


User:N/A


Computer:ADFSWEB


Description:


The ADFS Web Agent for claims-aware applications successfully retrieved trust information from the Federation Service. 


GUID: d977fee6-175b-4532-bc24-5ac54d137d57 


Version: 17 


Federation Service Uniform Resource Locator (URL): https://adfsresource.treyresearch.net/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx 


Federation Service Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): urn:federation:treyresearch 


Federation Service Endpoint URL: https://adfsresource.treyresearch.net/adfs/ls/ 


Federation Service Domain Account: TREYRESEARCH0ADFSRESOURCE$

You will also see the following event below in the Security log.

Event Type:Success Audit


Event Source:ADFS ASP.NET Module Auditor


Event Category:Object Access 


Event ID:560


Date:11/10/2005


Time:4:10:11 PM


User:NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE


Computer:ADFSWEB


Description:


The client presented a valid inbound token as evidence. 


Token ID: _ad5a3694-860d-4063-95a3-3b0163fad3ca 


Identity: adamcar@adatum.com 

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